How many years have we been waiting on Final Fantasy VII Remake now? Toomany is the only correct answer to that question, but could we finally get some new information in the coming months? Maybe at E3 2019? Well, anything's possible, and there's some speculation doing the rounds right now that says it's happening.

All of these whispers stem from the fact that Square Enix has announced an official Final Fantasy VII concert, which is set to take place just days before E3 begins, on the 9th June. Whats more, it's going to be happening at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles -- same city, innit.

Now look, we can see where the rumours are coming from. A Final Fantasy VII concert just before E3 kicks off? Square Enix said that it was going to turn its attention to its other projects (that's Final Fantasy VII Remake) after the release of Kingdom Hearts III, didn't it? The signs are there, but given the history of this remake, and indeed, Square Enix's history of being inexplicably out of touch, we're not entirely convinced.

Still, we'll be keeping an eye on all this. That Final Fantasy VII Remake trailer still gives us shivers, after all.

Robert's been a dedicated PlayStation fan since the days of Tekken 2, and he still loves a good dust up. When he's not practising combos, he's usually getting lost in the latest 100-hour RPG, or, y'know, replaying The Witcher 3.

It'll be made during the Nintendo Direct as a Switch exclusive just to troll everyone!

NOTE: Joke.

I am interested to see how far the project has come along and also interested to see what Square Enix will do with the game to make it feel fresh without making a lot of hardcore fanboys rage at the company. Oh wait...internet - rage is inevitable.

I have pretty high hopes for the game. I've been keeping up with the occasional Nomura and Hamaguchi interviews here and there. Some time last year, they mentioned updating Cloud's design to one that suits his "dorky" side a bit more, so I feel like Square's just making sure this game gets the TLC it needs.

I'd be more afraid if they were spamming us with new info tbh lol. The fact that they've kept things secret must mean they're pretty confident that the next trailer's going to knock our socks off. Pretty sure they also confirmed they'd have FF7r stuff to show at e3, so I doubt they'd make that statement lightly.

@ShogunRok Games are art Jimmy, I know we treat them like Rustler burgers coming off a production line but what's that old Miyamoto quote about a delayed game? Then again, the Dangerous Driving developers motto is "real artists ship"* and look what happened there.

Well, I'd love it if it did, but this seems hopelessly optimistic at best! Didn't they basically start the whole thing over from scratch recently? Can't imagine this thing ever hitting the current generation of consoles to be honest.

The announcement of VIIR was pretty unique in that it was less of an announcement and more of of an eagerly anticipated response to the question "Will you guys please remake FFVII?" that had been asked constantly for almost two decades. It wasn't so much announcing a game as much as it was announcing a concept; that they'd taken on board the fan desire for a remake and were now officially moving ahead with it in some capacity.

Besides, while obviously it's not gonna be out this year, as it stands there's currently less of a delay between VIIR's announcement and the current date than there was between the announcement and eventual release of Breath of the Wild. People seem to ignore this fact but BotW took over 4 years to come out and was delayed several times for a period of over 2 years.

@kyleforrester87 As Miyamoto once said; ''A delayed game is eventually good, but pineapple on pizza is forever bad. Also, micro-transactions make us more money than the entire quality nonsense. Now get me a Royale with cheese!''

As much I love 7 I didn't want a remake because I knew or know SE would screw it up, so far there doing well. Off loading it to a 3rd party Dev then bringing it back in most likely because the the world found out and they didn't like what they saw. The fact there splitting it into 2 game sir episodic is a joke I don't think it's a PS4 game I feel a PS5 release it will be

Final Fantasy 7 has been built up into such a legend, such an insane standard in the mind of so many people that I cannot imagine any remake ever living up to the illusion of perfection so many people have of the original.

The original is a cool game and was amazing at the time, but the way I see people talking about it makes it sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread and indoor plumbing. No remake is ever gonna be able to match that perfected image in our imaginations.

I don't want it. I have completed FFVII countless times, I still have my PS1 copy. I've asked for a remake since the PS3, but every decision made with this remake is concerning. I don't want their episodic hack and slash nonsense.

If it were past Square that was responsible for PE and Vagrant Story I would be interested, but given its current talentless/terrible story structured and boring gameplay driven SE I no longer care.
This is not the Square I grew up with, all of their talented devs left a long time ago.